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The Senate confirms Allison Rushing, a judicial nominee who once interned for a hate group
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Sickening. The damage that the Trump administration (and, well, all Republicans in general) are doing will be felt for generations to come.
So many chances to do good these four years just thrown to the Trump administration to make decisions that will fuck us for decades.
Not a day goes by I don't want to spit in the face of people who voted for the GOP.
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It's what I was told in the harassment thread 🤷🏻♂️
We need to stack the lower courts as well to dilute the influence of these illegitimate "judges"
Cool. Very cool.
I have just read "Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s", so now I finally know that this clip is from "Youth Suicide Fantasy: Does Their Music Make Them Do It?".
You seriously going to go back to that so you can spout your defense of harassment?
Knowing your argument is disingenuous? I guess a hate group and a lobbying firm are the same thing to you?
The fact that this is your first thought and response to this is telling, you just want to excuse harassment, with a lame and shitty 'gotcha'
Lifetime appointment.
WaPo: The Senate just confirmed a judge who interned at an anti-LGBTQ group. She'll serve for life.
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Republicans just advanced the judicial nomination of 36 year-old Allison Jones Rushing for the 4th Circuit (NC). She has practiced law for just 9 years, only tried 4 cases to verdict or judgment in her career (none as lead counsel), and isn't even a member of the NC bar.
6:27 PM - Mar 4, 2019
Republicans just advanced the judicial nomination of 36 year-old Allison Jones Rushing for the 4th Circuit (NC). She has practiced law for just 9 years, only tried 4 cases to verdict or judgment in her career (none as lead counsel), and isn't even a member of the NC bar.
6:27 PM - Mar 4, 2019
WaPo: The Senate just confirmed a judge who interned at an anti-LGBTQ group. She'll serve for life.
The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm to a lifetime appointment on a federal appeals court a 37-year-old Washington lawyer whose nomination drew vociferous opposition from LGBTQ and some civil rights groups.
Allison Rushing, partner at Williams and Connolly who President Trump nominated in August, was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit by a vote that split evenly down party lines. All 53 Republicans voted for her, while the rest of the Senate, with the exception of three abstentions — Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) — voted against her.
The court covers federal jurisdictions in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina and Maryland.
The news drew quick condemnation from Democrats and many civil rights and LGBTQ groups.
"Today is a very difficult and disappointing day for the roughly 1 million LGBTQ people who live in the states covered by the Fourth Circuit, and for all people who care about courts that can treat all people with dignity and fairness," Sharon McGowan, legal director of Lambda Legal, said in a statement.
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Republicans cheered her confirmation.
"I want to thank my Senate colleagues for voting to confirm Allison Jones Rushing to be a U.S. Circuit Court Judge for the Fourth Circuit," Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) said in a statement. "I've had the opportunity to get to know her through the nomination process and I know she's going to do a great job."
Rushing's nomination drew vocal opposition from a coalition of more than 200 civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, the Human Rights Campaign, the ACLU lead by Vanita Gupta, the former head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice under President Barack Obama.
"In their quest to remake the federal courts, Republicans rushed to confirm an inexperienced ideologue to a lifetime appointment in North Carolina despite her never having practiced there," the coalition, The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, said in a statement. "Rushing has denounced marriage equality, opposed remedies for discriminatory lending practices, and rejected efforts to end housing discrimination against domestic and sexual violence survivors. Her record clearly shows she will not be a fair and independent judge — a reality with dire consequences for Fourth Circuit cases and the American people."
